Alexandra Hayne is the author of What Ruth Learned: A Novel

Women's Fiction

A novel of secrets, reinvention, and the stories we inherit.

Ruth Sullivan never expected to return to Los Angeles. But when her life stalls out, she is pulled back to her hometown — and into the mystery of her family’s past. What begins as a quest to remake her own life becomes a journey through forgotten journals, faded photographs, and the shadows of 1950s Hollywood.

In a dual-timeline narrative that spans decades, Ruth uncovers the truth about a woman who called herself C-Note, a priest with a past, and a marriage that unraveled under the weight of ambition and silence. As Ruth pieces together the fragments of lives she never knew, she must confront her own choices, her fractured family, and the legacy she is poised to carry forward.

What Ruth learns does change her life, but not in the way she first imagined.

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Menelaos Gkikas is the author of Rose Garden, A Second Chance

“Nothing is what it seems, and nothing lasts forever.”

This will soon be realized by Nefeli, a young, daydreaming ballerina, when she is called to save a world that she wouldn’t imagine could exist.

From Victorian England, in a magical way, she will be moved to Fairytaland. There, together with prince Stephen, they will try to smooth the disruption of this fantastic-phantasmagoric world, where everything obeys unknown, paradoxical rules.

The universe is not made by atoms, but by many tiny stories, and Nefeli will create many of them beside Stephen.

Is one of them capable of saving the magic of fairytales?

Will the two heroes manage to return Fairytaland to its former, golden age?

An illustrated epic fairytale fantasy novella for all ages above 16 yea

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Wolf Bahren is the author of The Secessionist's Wife

Espionage/Journalism/Thriller

For journalist Anna Jones of the New York Daily Journal, nothing is more important than finding the truth. So when Fort Riley, Kansas, suffers a terrorist attack, Anna jumps at the chance to see what's happening at the base. She and her partner Viktor Simonson rush to the heartland to cover the events as they unfold. Once on the ground, they agree to divide and conquer-one will check out the damage at the military installation, the other will attend a press conference with Kansas Governor Marie Danielle Schreiber in the nearby college town of Manhattan. In no time, Anna realizes the attack may not be as cut-and-dried as it appears. She also loses track of Viktor.

Meanwhile, on a farm outside Junction City, housewife Theresa Walkermore is grappling with mysteries of her own. Between her husband Noah's unexplained absences and middle-of-the-night activities, she's sure he's being unfaithful to her again. But as she's drawn into his world, she fears he's embroiled in something far worse than adultery.

Sharing the same values and moral strength, Anna and Theresa realize that, together, they may be the only ones capable of stopping a plot that threatens not just Kansas, but the United States itself....

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